Kang is concurrently a PhD candidate at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he also earned an MS in Cybersecurity. Prior to IST, Kang was a Summer Associate at RAND Corporation, where he analyzed Indo-Pacific cybersecurity cooperation. As a Consultant at Blackpeak in Tokyo, he led multilingual due diligence and political risk investigations on more than thirty Japanese, South Korean, and Taiwanese corporations for institutional investor clients. He previously conducted fieldwork on Chinese AI and frontier technology policy at the Berggruen Institute’s China Center in Beijing, served as a Research Fellow at the East-West Center’s Humane AI Initiative, and as a Korea Foundation Resident Fellow at Pacific Forum, researching North Korean cyber operations and publishing on South Korean semiconductor strategy.
Kang was selected to the Harvard Belfer Center’s North Korea Cyber Working Group and the inaugural U.S.–ROK–Japan Trilateral Global Leadership Youth Summit, convened under the mandate of the 2023 Camp David summit, and named a Committee of 100 Scholar. He was also a U.S.–Asia Grand Strategy Fellow at the University of Southern California and awarded the Presidential Fellowship at Georgia Tech, the Yenching Scholarship at Peking University, the Bai Xian Asia Future Leaders Fellowship, and the Japan MEXT OUSSEP Scholarship for study at Osaka University. Kang holds an MA in China Studies from the Yenching Academy of Peking University, an MA in Asian Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and a BA in International Affairs from the University of Georgia.